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The 2016 tropical storm season is making its mark with an unusually early start. Tropical Storm Bonnie promises to wash out coastal plans for the Carolina coast. Public Advisories

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Charley strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday after prompting officials to order visitors out of part of the Florida Keys, while Tropical Storm Bonnie chugged across the Gulf of Mexico on a path that would carry heavy rain toward the already wet Florida Panhandle. The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for the middle and lower Florida Keys from Dry Tortugas to Craig Key. A watch means hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours. Hurricane watches were posted for western Cuba and Jamaica, and a hurricane warning was issued for the Cayman Islands. Charley was...

Two Tropical Storms Threaten Caribbean, Gulf MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Charley was born in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, joining Tropical Storm Bonnie as twin threats to the Caribbean region and the southern U.S. coast. Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Jamaica could be put under a storm watch later on Tuesday as Charley revved up between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. At 5 a.m. EDT, the center of Charley was about 450 miles south-southeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at latitude 13 north and longitude 66.3 west, the hurricane center said. The storm was steaming west-northwest at...

000 WTNT32 KNHC 092028 TCPAT2 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM BONNIE ADVISORY NUMBER 7 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 4 PM CDT MON AUG 09 2004 ...BONNIE FORMS FROM THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO... AT 4 PM CDT...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BONNIE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 23.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE 88.7 WEST OR ABOUT 410 MILES SOUTH OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BONNIE IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE TONIGHT. A GRADUAL DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED AND A TURN TO THE NORTH IS EXPECTED...